CLST 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pharmakos, Schadenfreude, Catullus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 205
• Professor: Drew Griffith

Document Summary

The native english word is misdelight and the most famous descriptiom of the phenomenon in the ancient world comes form the roman author lecretius in. 14: expressing malicious triumph at another(cid:495)s distress- issai. Humour and ignorance: notion of ignorance as a necessary part of humour the incarnate word, never laughed. In the eyes of him who has all knowledge and power, nothing: charles baudelaire- (cid:498)the wise man does not laugh w/o trembling The wise man par excellence, comic exists(cid:499: hebrew god is omniscient, but the greek gods were not- whole book of the iliad is called (cid:498)the. Apocolocyntosis, (cid:494)the pumpkinification(cid:495) of claudius in which the roman idea of deified: multiple use of the same material. Jokes can either be hostile (serving the purpose of aggressiveness, satire, or defense) or an obscene joke (serving the purpose of exposure: aggressive ex. Clouds by aristophanes (27: very little we could teach greeks and romans about toilet humour, in fact they could probs teach.